In 1988, Joe Ferraro, FAIA, LEED AP, and Gerald Choi founded Ferraro Choi and Associates, Ltd., an environmentally-oriented architectural and interior design firm operating in Honolulu and New York. Joe and Gerald were Hawaii’s first LEED accredited professional architects and have been recognized for numerous sustainable designs. Among their most notable accomplishments are designs for the National Science Foundation’s Crary Science and Technology Laboratory at McMurdo Station in Antartica and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a $200,000,000 research facility at the bottom of the earth.
Ferraro Choi is currently working on the new Pacific Regional Center for NOAA at Ford Island and the UH Information Technology Center, both LEED registered projects.
Joe is a Fellow of the Honolulu Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Hawaii State Council and serves as president of the Hawaii Architectural Foundation. He is also a graduate of Pratt Institute and the UH School of Architecture, and remains active as a member of the UH School of Architecture Advisory Committee, an adjunct professor for the School’s doctoral degree Practicum program and advisor to UH’s Sea Grant College Program.
